Now that a new date for elections – 18 October – is irreversible, Bolivia has once again narrowly avoided civil war. Jeanine Áñez was installed as president in a coup last November with Brazilian, US

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-hope-machine-on-jeffrey-brookss-the-firebird-and-the-fox-russian-culture-under-tsars-and-bolsheviks/

Was a U. of Colorado professor fired for being a thorn in the side of the petroleum industry? https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/03/the-savaging-of-detlev-helmig-citizen/

Consider the sources: Cops and the NY Post... JAI

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/03/david-graeber-anthropologist-and-author-of-bullshit-jobs-dies-aged-59

Dear Marxmail, My name is Kaiwen, and I am a student studying math at the University of Chicago. I am also a member of the Platypus Affiliated Society. I would like to invite you all to attend a virtu

An interesting marketing campaign for this webinar. I received a virtually identical invitation, but it began "My name is Kevin, and I am a student studying math at the University of Chicago." Are Kev

Hey Ian, that's me, I go by both! :)

https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/09/03/was-mao-a-bukharinist-the-three-line-struggle-in-economic-debates-preceding-the-great-leap-forward/

https://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/colonial-decolonial-anthro/

I think the major split in the ruling class has been going on for a long time, and came to a head after Trump's election. Unfortunately, those who call themselves socialists today have either aligned

Of course Black people want cops. They also want capitalism. Polls are problematic, however. Just consider: Though many African Americans have told pollsters they support the struggles of undocumented

Don't expect an answer from "Max Power". He trolled my blog for a couple of years until I showed him the door. He never wrote more than a hundred words and most of them were personal digs at me: "It’s

Hi all, I find this discussion odd. I live in a Black neighborhood in Brooklyn. There have been very large protests here against police racism and violence. People opposed such attitudes and practices

I used to tell a story about driving around with Tecnica director Michael Urmann late at night in Managua in 1989. Since there are no street signs in Managua, it's easy to get lost. You don't tell som

I didn’t mention any specific group because I didn’t want to single one out. There’s more than one group, and thousands of people, making this claim. It could be BLM, it could be DSA… And it certainly

Like a David Brooks column come to life, the Biden campaign pretends to recapture some past but essential American goodness, which presumably existed before November 2016. Like Robinson, just when and

I recently came across something online (I don't remember where, or I'd paraphrase it better here) that made the argument that people should not read Hegel, and linked the idea of dialectical material

Indeed, this is the problem with all concepts cooked in the oven of academe. However well-intentioned, however accurately focused they start out, the more they are taken up and commercialized, the mor